Starsailor: Apollo, Manchester
Nick Hasted, Independent, The, 29 September 2003
THE MUSIC PRESS has bitterly dismissed Starsailor's second album, Silence Is Easy. Once the band were seen as saviours, but it's now as if they are a drunken bet that didn't pay off, and it's easier to put down the horse than to take the blame.
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